imbody
Americanverb (used with object)
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The lineaments are indeed true to nature, but no artist could catch the ever varying expression, or imbody that unrivalled grace, which threw a charm around her, more captivating even than her faultless beauty.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan
But the Active Intellect, the creative power,--the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone.
From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
I have only sketched—sometimes perhaps with too fanciful a pencil, subjects of great importance, which, by being thus rendered popular, may induce abler pens to imbody them in a more permanent form.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
Their poets imbodied in verse these favourite recitals of love and war.
From History of the Moors of Spain by Florian, M.
In doing so, however, they see not the profound calculation required for nearly every feature thus imbodied.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander
It is true, it is a sarcasm of Voltaire's; but Voltaire, though born a Frenchman, neither imbodied nor was capable of understanding the true French ideal.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
They imbodied many touching allusions to her condition, united with firm expressions of her entire innocence of the imputation under which she lay.
From Finger Posts on the Way of Life by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
It is his highest praise, however, that he has imbodied this faith in a true work of art, which speaks for itself.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
Whatever some of the Eclectic philosophers might have asserted, Plato considered that our ideas were derived from external objects, and never contemplated the extravagant doctrine of imbodying metaphysical abstractions, or personifying intellectual ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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